Iran regime hangs women on eve of International Women's Day

NCRI - At least two women were hanged to death on the eve of the International women's day in a prison in Iran.

One of the prisoners identified as Mehrnoosh Qavasi, in her fifties, was executed after serving many years in prison.

Before being transferred to Qezel Hesar Prison in the city of Karaj for execution, the two victims were held in infamous Qarchak (Gharchak) women's prison in the city of Varamin where conditions are harsh.

The two women were hanged with 10 other prisoners in Qezel Hesar prison as part of new wave of executions in cities across the country.

The executions were carried out in secret without any report being published in the news media in Iran that are government controlled.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, a Grand gathering on occasion of International Women’s Day was held in Berlin with participation of over a hundred women personalities from five continents condemned the misogynist regime in Iran for suppressing women.

The participants in the gathering entitled “For Tolerance and Equality against Fundamentalism and Misogyny ” underscored that the advancement of the ideal of equality in the world today has come face-to-face with a formidable barrier, the Islamic Fundamentalism. This phenomenon is endangering the entire Middle East and the world through genocide, terrorism and discrimination and more than anything is hostile to women.

The executions in Iran also comes days after a report from the office of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the U.N. Human Rights Council cataloged U.N. concerns about rights violations in Iran, described the high rate of executions in Iran a 'deeply troubling'.

“The Secretary-General remains deeply troubled by the continuing large number of executions, including of political prisoners and juveniles”, the UN report said.

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Iran: 12 prisoners hanged on Saturday (drug dealers )

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NCRI - At least a dozen prisoners were hanged in Ghessel Hessar prison in the Iranian city of Karaj on Saturday.

According to the information received from Iran, during the past week over two dozen prisoners have been hanged in this prison which none have been reported by the state-run news media in Iran.

The group of prisoners included men identified as Asghar Mir-adli, Adel Salmanzadeh, Abdullah Lozomi, Hossein Rostami, Mohsen Alipour, Sadegh Mohamad Ahooie. Mohammad Mahmoudi and Massoud Moahmaadi, according to reports.

The Iranian regime’s Interior Minister in Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet said on Thursday “Drug traffickers must be hanged and the judiciary should not have any mercy in dealing with these individuals.”

Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said: “There are pressure on us by the world for hanging drug traffickers. The reason is that the drug business has income of thousands of billions and those involved support the terrorist networks and give them money,” the state-run news agency ISNA.

The minister’s remarks comes days after a report from the office of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the U.N. Human Rights Council cataloged U.N. concerns about rights violations in Iran, described the high rate of executions in Iran a 'deeply troubling.'

“The Secretary-General remains deeply troubled by the continuing large number of executions, including of political prisoners and juveniles”, the UN report said.

Two Suspects Arrested for Murder of Russian Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov

MOSCOW – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB, formerly the KGB) announced Saturday the arrest of suspects in the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down last Feb. 27 in front of the Kremlin.

“Two suspects have been arrested today for that crime. They are Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev,” FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov said on Russian public television.

Bortnikov, who said the people arrested are from the North Caucasus, added that President Vladimir Putin has been informed of their detention.

“By order of the president, the FSB, the Interior Ministry and the Investigative Committee created a joint operating team to investigate the murder of Boris Nemtsov,” he said.

According to another official, cited by the Interfax agency, those in custody are the suspected assassins of Nemtsov, who died on the spot after taking four bullets in the back on Feb. 27 around midnight on a bridge near the Kremlin.

“Almost immediately after the crime, security forces found clues that helped solve the case,” the official said.

In particular he mentioned finding the car in which the criminals got away and in which police found material that allowed them to locate the suspects, as did images from surveillance cameras.

“This is good news,” Nemtsov’s attorney Vadim Prokhorov said, adding that the victim’s family wants the suspects to confess because having them formally accused is not enough.

Meanwhile the head of the Human Rights Committee in the Kremlin, Mikhail Fedotov, said that, aside from catching the murderers, it is vital that the intellectual authors of the crime be identified.

This week the Russian president demanded that the Interior Ministry prevent political crimes like “the shameless assassination of Boris Nemtsov in the very heart of the capital.”

“We must free Russia once and for all of the shame of tragedies like the one we have recently seen and suffered,” he said

The young Ukrainian woman who was with Nemtsov when he was murdered last Friday on a bridge over the Moscow River, denied Monday in a statement on Russian television that she had seen the gunmen.

“I don’t know where the killer came from. I didn’t see him, since it all happened behind me,” she said.

Nemtsov supporters accuse the Kremlin, not of pulling the trigger, not even of plotting the murder, but of provoking the crime by planting “the seed of hate” against those who criticize the annexation of Crimea and oppose Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

Tens of thousands of people bade their final farewell to the opposition leader after taking part Sunday in a massive commemorative march through the streets of Moscow.

U.S. to File Corruption Charges against Sen. Menendez

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to file corruption charges against Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey for allegedly accepting gifts from a wealthy Dominican surgeon in exchange for political favors, CNN and the Washington Post reported.

Charges against the chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee and the highest-ranking Latino Democrat in Congress could be filed in the coming weeks, according to the media reports, which the Justice Department has not confirmed.

The investigation is centered on the 61-year-old Menendez’s relationship with Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Florida eye surgeon who is a close friend of Menendez’s and has made donations to the senator’s campaigns and committees he is associated with, CNN reported.

Prosecutors are looking at whether Menendez improperly intervened on behalf of Melgen’s ICSSI company with federal Medicare administrators who had accused the ophthalmologist of overbilling that government healthcare agency, according to CNN, which cited sources close to the investigation.

Melgen has been one of the biggest recipients of Medicare reimbursements in recent years, a time in which he also has been a major Democratic Party donor.

Menendez also is suspected of improperly trying to ensure the fulfillment of a lucrative port screening equipment contract that one of Melgen’s business concerns had with the Dominican Republic.

Investigators, in particular, are looking at whether the senator tried to thwart a potential U.S. government donation of port-screening equipment to the Caribbean country, according to people briefed on the probe.

They are also scrutinizing two trips Menendez made to the Dominican Republic in 2010 as Melgen’s guest. Three years later, after it came to light that Menendez had not covered the cost of the plane trips, the senator paid Melgen $58,500 for those travel expenses. He says his failure to disclose the flights was an oversight.

Menendez, a son of Cuban immigrants who has criticized the Obama administration for its decision to restore full diplomatic ties with the Communist-ruled island, vehemently denies the allegations.

“Let me be very clear, I have always conducted myself appropriately and in accordance with the law,” he told reporters Friday night.

“And I am not going anywhere.”

Blogger note : Argentine ( Wink and a nod Justice ) Alberto Nisman

This is a sad day for Justice ( A man was killed ) he died for what he believed in and his country let him down.  A " Federal Judge ", just looked the other way ( wink and a nod Justice ) . In the end Nisman , a victim of nasty political garbage," Is that all his life was worth " ?


Sometimes true Justice only comes by
"exposing the guilty".

Take a look at a " Real Man " !

I lost any respect that I had left for the Argentine Government and their Criminal Justice system.

Judge Dismisses Suit Accusing Argentine President of Obstructing Nisman Probe

BUENOS AIRES – A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit alleging that Argentine President Cristina Fernandez and other administration officials obstructed the probe into the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had accused the head of state of seeking to cover up the involvement of Iran in a 1994 terrorist attack on a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires that claimed 85 lives.

Judge Ariel Lijo said Argentine journalist Cristian Sanz’s accusations against Fernandez for alleged abuse of authority and breach of her public duties had no merit due to the “absence of a crime,” state-run news agency Telam reported.

“There are no solid arguments” to support the accusation, Lijo said.

Sanz also named Cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez, Attorney General Alejandra Gils Carbo and Security Secretary Sergio Berni in his complaint, filed on Feb. 6.

He accused the president of “engaging in reckless conduct” by initially publicly supporting the hypothesis of suicide but then days later changing course and saying the January fatal shooting of Nisman was a homicide, thus “sullying the judicial investigation” into the prosecutor’s death.

The journalist also accused the other administration officials of “casting suspicion” on former agents at Argentina’s intelligence agency who had recently been fired and on Diego Lagomarsino, who worked for the prosecutor and provided him with the gun that killed him.

Lagomarsino has been charged with providing a firearm to someone not licensed to use one.

Nisman, the special prosecutor for the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish organization, was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment on Jan. 18, four days after he announced the charges against Fernandez.

The prosecutor died of a single shot to the temple. The case remains under investigation as a “suspicious death.”

Another prosecutor, Gerardo Pollicita, took up the accusation following Nisman’s death and filed a brief with Judge Daniel Rafecas in mid-February asking him to approve formal charges against Fernandez, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and six other people.

But that magistrate dismissed the charges late last month, saying in a ruling that the evidence does not provide even minimal support for the accusations against Fernandez or the others.

Pollicita on Wednesday appealed that ruling.

Nisman’s accusation against Fernandez cited the Memorandum of Understanding her administration signed with Iran in 2013 to facilitate the AMIA investigation as the principal instrument of the purported cover-up.

The late prosecutor said that intercepts of telephone calls among some of the prospective defendants – though not Fernandez or Timerman – showed the outlines of a plan for Argentina to get Interpol to rescind the red notices the international police agency had issued for the arrest of Iranians accused in the AMIA bombing.

In exchange, according to Nisman, Iran was supposed to sell oil to Argentina.

The Fernandez administration has pointed out that no part of the ostensible conspiracy ever came to fruition, and the man who headed Interpol for 15 years until last November rebutted Nisman’s key accusation.

“I can say with 100 percent certainty, not a scintilla of doubt, that Foreign Minister Timerman and the Argentine government have been steadfast, persistent and unwavering that the Interpol’s red notices be issued, remain in effect and not be suspend or removed,” Ronald K. Noble said in January.

Many in the Argentine Jewish community believe the AMIA bombing was ordered by Iran and carried out by Tehran’s Hezbollah allies.

Both the Iranian government and the Lebanese militia group deny any involvement and some have pointed out that the accusation relies heavily on information provided by the CIA and Israel’s Mossad spy agency, both with an interest in blackening the reputation of Tehran.

Prosecutors have yet to secure a single conviction in the case.

In September 2004, 22 people accused in the bombing were acquitted after a process plagued with delays, irregularities and tales of witnesses’ being paid for their testimony.